Hacker News: whatthe12899

New comment by whatthe12899 in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

whatthe12899 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:57:03 +0000

meh fuck shopify

New comment by whatthe12899 in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"

whatthe12899 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:57:02 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy

New comment by whatthe12899 in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

whatthe12899 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:48:44 +0000

back and forth. forever.

New comment by whatthe12899 in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

whatthe12899 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:45:55 +0000

In my nearly fifty years on this planet, I've never used an emdash. not once.

New comment by whatthe12899 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

whatthe12899 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:52:15 +0000

this is shopify's river as a product?

New comment by whatthe12899 in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

whatthe12899 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:40:45 +0000

if you can't be bothered to write your own PR descriptions because it's drudgery, how can you expect others to read your (now-lengthier-because-AI) PR descriptions?

This is an honest as someone who is also now doing this.

New comment by whatthe12899 in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

whatthe12899 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:04:27 +0000

wait, are you OP? or did you happen to find a high res version of the same paper-copy picture that OP supposedly was given 30 years ago and then scanned and then threw out. or did OP make it up? or is OP just a bot?

maybe i'm a bot.

anyway i used to call into BBSs back in the early 90s and the thing I'm remembering is that they survived mostly on donations, and now that I am seeing the infrastructure that supported those systems and recalling the price of hardware back then I'm starting to second guess everything I thought I knew.

New comment by whatthe12899 in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

whatthe12899 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:38:54 +0000

> the reduction in crime is not solely due to Flock, but is has definitely helped.

what's the theory? murderers see flock cams and decide not to murder? most of the general public doesn't even know what these cameras are (or that they even exist).